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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.

Ned Vizzini

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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Silly
Littles
Little
Heart
Thing

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I was never big on rage.' 'Why?' It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.
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What am I always going to do? I'm going to go home and freak out.I'm going to sit with my family and try not to talk about myself and what's wrong. Im going to try and eat. Then I'm going to try and sleep. I dread it. I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?
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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
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That's what gets me through the day. Knowing that I could do it. That I'm strong enough to do it and I can get it done.
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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.
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She's pretty. (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)
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I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
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I don't- I shake my head. (...) What? What were you going to say? This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.
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No, mom says, looking at me in the eyes. What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to LIVE. THAT'S a triumph. that's what you did today.
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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.
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I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer, I respect that... but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be able to do anything but work as hard as possible all the time and compete with everyone I know all the time to make it.
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Nobody had told me I was common.
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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away
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I like you a lot. Because you’re funny and smart and because you seem to like me. I know that’s not a good reason, but I can’t help it if a girl likes me I tend to like her back [...] I like you for all this stuff but I also kind of like you for the cuts on your face—
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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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I'm going to be here until I'm cured? Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed.
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